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arguing against the auto bailout
Not that it’ll do much good, but I just left messages at the local offices for Kentucky’s Senators Jim Bunning and Mitch McConnell, and also Representative Ben Chandler, urging them to vote against or argue against the proposed $15 billion auto bailout. It’s so damn depressing to me that our government feels it’s their [...]
Obama, AI, and reviews
I’m very tickled that Obama won the election. I’m now worried as hell that some attempt will be made on his life and he won’t make it to the White House; I’m really just counting down the days to January 20th (I think it’s the 20th–it’s not the fifteenth, is it?) when he’s sworn [...]
government bail-outs
I’m divided on how I feel about the recent Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae bail-outs by the government.
While I don’t like our government saving private corporations (if they go bottom up, that just shows their bad business sense, and we should let the market sort it out–kind of like Darwinism with corporations), I understand [...]
Obama v. McCain pros and cons
Based on the summary in this Newsday article*, here are the pros and cons as I see them to Obama and McCain:
McCain
Pros
Cons
“Would declare a summer gas tax holiday, suspending the 18.4 cent federal gas tax from Memorial Day to Labor Day.” Sounds useful to me, but it also sounds like a symptom treatment rather [...]
FISA and Obama slop
I’m so disgusted about yesterday’s result on the FISA amendments. I’ve emailed Kentucky’s senators, complaining about how if our own President, ideally someone who breaks no laws himself and especially not someone who asks other entities to break the law, can commit felonies and not get in trouble for it, why on earth should [...]
five disturbing videos
I found a collection of five videos online that supposedly showcase “American soldiers at their worst.” I didn’t find all the videos to be conclusive evidence of soldiers at their worst, so here are my opinions of each of them. First off, though, here’s the page I found containing those five videos: [...]
two reasons I hate President Bush
I’ve been asked before why I hate President Bush, and I never can back it up because I don’t remember specific events that have triggered my anger. Well, now I’m writing down a couple before they get buried in my memory:
White House says phone wiretaps back on “for now”
The Bush administration said on Saturday [...]
controversial comic
Last Friday in the local student newspaper, the Kentucky Kernel, there was a comic that has sparked all kinds of protest. I didn’t even see the comic, but boy have I heard about it since. Here’s a description of the comic from yesterday’s Kernel:
The cartoon, which ran on Friday and was drawn by [...]
holy crap, McConnell did something I like!